I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Google has announced this week plans to crack down on Android apps that abuse the OS permissions system and request access to user geo-location data when the app is not in use. Starting with May, the ...

Smartphone owners who granted “always allow” location access to a weather widget or prayer-time app may have unknowingly fed their precise coordinates to a commercial data broker that sold the ...

This week Google is "previewing" policy changes to Android and Google Play that'll impact the ways in which developers of apps are able to access location data on smartphones and tablets. This affects ...

Android app developers will soon need approval from the Google Play team before accessing a user’s location data in the background, according to an Android Developers Blog post Wednesday. In ...

In February, it was revealed that existing apps that request a user’s background location would need to be approved by Google. A deadline of November 2 of this year was originally set, but that date ...